Three artworks by James Lancel McElhinney—two paintings and one drawing—have entered the permanent collection of the Plattsburgh State Art Museum. The museum holds than 10,000 objects including the most comprehensive collection of artworks by Rockwell Kent (1882-1971). McElhinney  and  his wife, noted scholar Katherine E. Manthorne, purchased a home on the Champlain Coast in 2020. McElhinney set up a studio in Au Sable Forks, not far from Rockwell Kent’s farm Asgaard.

McElhinney received an MFA in Painting from Yale and completed his undergraduate training at Tyler School of Art and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. McElhinney is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pollock Krasner Foundation. He is the author of six books on painting and drawing, and numerous essays on various subjects in periodicals and peer-reviewed journals.

McElhinney artworks can be found in the collections of the Albany Institute of History and Art, Asheville Art Museum, Chrysler Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, New York Public Library, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, West Point Museum, Yale Beinecke Rare Book Library, and others including Hudson River Museum, where McElhinney now sits on the Board of Trustees.

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